Pest control company Orkin recently released their annual “rattiest cities list,” putting a handful of North Carolina cities on the rat map. Chicago took the top spot for the ninth year in a row, ...

Rats are as bad as human beings in some ways. In the latest Journal of Wildlife Management, Dr. John B. Calhoun, of Johns Hopkins, discusses one such aspect of the rat world: the troubles which ...

In an attempt to save the seabird species Henderson Petrel from extinction on its native South Pacific island, one conservation group is embarking on a mission to eradicate a group of non-native rats ...